The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in the Spring Framework (before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.RC1) fails to disable external entity resolution when processing XML. An attacker can send crafted XML to a remote endpoint to read arbitrary files, trigger a denial of service, or conduct CSRF attacks.
The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.RC1 does not disable external entity resolution, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via crafted XML, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4152 and CVE-2013-7315.
Disclosed on 26 Jan 2014. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
A fix was bypassed or incomplete once over 3 months.
Why these are linked: Link confidenceHow strong the evidence is that two CVEs are related. High: stated in the CVE text or linked in an advisory, or the same code was patched one release apart. Medium: the same code, or a version step plus a similar description. Low: similar description only.
NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4152, CVE-2013-7315, and CVE-2013-6429.
No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
1 package in 1 ecosystem. Main package: org.springframework:spring-web.
Upgrade to 3.2.5.RELEASE or later
Set the version to 3.2.5.RELEASE or later in your pom.xml or build.gradle.
The first fix for CVE-2013-6429. No other CVE tracked by Patchfirst affects this package.
| If you run | Upgrade to |
|---|---|
| All versions before 3.2.5.RELEASE | 3.2.5.RELEASE |
“Up to” means the second version is the fix and is not affected.
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